THIS WEEK IN DETAIL• A Toast to Local Designers @ VOOS First in our series A toast to Local designers - Trained as Architects. We have been proudly displaying their work, now it is time we present in person our wonderful designers! There will be eight casual Fridays, over which you can meet 65 local designers.VOOS | 103a North 3rd Street Brooklyn, New York 112111/22: 5pm - 8pm

• Tim Burton Retrospective This major career retrospective on Tim Burton, consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator.MoMA | 11 West 53 Street New York, New York 10019Now - 4/26

• Chester Nielsen California Houses Nielsen, a California-born artist and architect, lives and works in New York. The drawings in the exhibition documents — in the words of the artist — the knowledge that I have gained from a year of study of the form embodied in this personal, social, architectural, and communal phenomena of Christmas lights on Californians' homes.Art 101 | 101 Grand Street Brooklyn, New York 11211OPENING RECEPTION 1/22: 7pm - 9pmEXHIBIT1/22 - 2/28

• Clic Bookstore Sale Dozens of covetable art, fashion, and photography titles from houses like Taschen, Rizzoli, TeNeues, Steidl, and other art presses will be available for up to 30% off retail prices.189 Lafayette Street (at Broome Street) in SohoNow - 1/31

• BoConcept Seasonal Sale Amazing savings on smart sofas and storage units from the luxury brand's 2010 contemporary design furniture collection. Discounted items include the popular Indivi 2 sofa, which can be customized to come in over 80 different fabrics and leathers. Also available at a reduced rate is the stylish and space efficient Basic 3D storage system. Additionally, as BoConcept showrooms are always being updated, purchasers on a budget are encouraged to take advantage of up to 60% off all floor sample models.All New York and Edgewater, New Jersey stores12/26 - 1/31

• The American Antiques Show The American Antiques Show (TAAS), now in its ninth year, features the finest dealers in 17th- to 20th-century American folk art, furniture, American Indian art, decorative arts, and fine arts.The Metropolitan Pavilion | 125 West 18th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) NYCPREVIEW GALA To benefit the American Folk Art Museum Wednesday evening, 1/20SHOW 1/21 - 1/24

• Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity MoMA's first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art.The Museum of Modern Art | 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 1001911/8 - 1/25/2010

COMING UP IN DETAIL• Mannahatta Lecture and Book Signing Ever wondered what New York looked like before it was a city? Welcome to Mannahatta, 1609. Dr. Eric W. Sanderson, Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, will recreate a very different New York, when the first Europeans were arriving on a hilly island teaming with wildlife. We will have his "New York Times" best-selling book, "Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City," on hand for purchase and signing. You'll also have the opportunity to sponsor a city block for the Mannahatta Project. Hors d'oeuvres and wine will be served. Please RSVP.DWR Tools for Living | 142 Wooster Street New York, New York 100121/27: 7pm-9pm